{"id":2381108,"date":"2024-12-17T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-try-to-rip-apart-republic-by-abolishing-electoral-college\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:32:17","slug":"dems-try-to-rip-apart-republic-by-abolishing-electoral-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-try-to-rip-apart-republic-by-abolishing-electoral-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Try To Rip Apart Republic By Abolishing Electoral College"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-try-to-rip-apart-republic-by-abolishing-electoral-college%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2381108&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In\u2064 teh ongoing context of certifying the 2024 \u2064presidential election, some far-left U.S. Senate members, \u2063including Senators Brian \u200bSchatz, Dick Durbin, and Peter Welch, are advocating \u200bfor the abolition of the Electoral college.They argue \u2062that this move is necessary to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/myanmar-fires-ambassador-to-un-over-incendiary-comments\/\" title=\"Myanmar fires ambassador to UN over incendiary comments\">restore democracy<\/a>.&#8221; Though, \u2064critics,\u2062 such as Trent England from Save Our States, contend that abolishing the Electoral College would destabilize presidential elections and weaken a key constitutional safeguard against tyranny, compromising\u200b fair representation among\u2063 various\u200b states. \u2064England emphasizes \u2064that without the\u200b Electoral College, dominant populations in states like California and\u200d New York could <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">disproportionately influence presidential\u200c outcomes<\/a>. A Senate resolution has been\u200c introduced to propose a constitutional\u200c amendment for direct presidential elections \u2062based on a national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nothing-about-this-election-seems-to-add-up-the-liberty-loft\/\" title=\"Nothing about this election seems to add up | The Liberty Loft\">popular vote<\/a>, raising concerns about the \u200dimplications for electoral balance and the role of the Senate itself.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As states continue to certify the 2024 presidential election, far-left activists in the U.S. Senate are attempting to rip apart the republic by abolishing the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., say they want to &ldquo;restore democracy&rdquo; by destroying one of the Constitution&rsquo;s foremost safeguards against tyranny, in a move that would make it extremely difficult for most states to have proper representation in presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Abolishing the Electoral College will destabilize presidential elections and undermine our uniquely successful form of government,&rdquo; Trent England, executive director of Save Our States, told The Federalist. &ldquo;The Electoral College provides an important check and balance on our election system by limiting the power any one state can have and spreading that power out among rural and urban voters and large and small states.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without the Electoral College, voters in states like California and New York will dictate the outcome of Presidential elections,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Politicians should embrace and celebrate the Electoral College instead of proposing partisan measures that will essentially rip out part of the Constitution and embroil our elections in political turmoil.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-joint-resolution\/121\/all-info\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resolution<\/a>, which introduces a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College, provides for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-blasts-claims-that-ap-reporters-were-lucky-to-get-out-of-building-it-wasnt-luck\/\" title=\"Netanyahu Blasts Claims That AP Reporters Were \u2018Lucky\u2019 To Get Out Of Building: \u2018It Wasn\u2019t Luck\u2019\">direct election<\/a> of president and vice president by national popular vote.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Schatz and Welch, being from less populous states, are effectively attempting to nullify the votes of their own constituents and give them to states like California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois. The resolution also calls into question the need for a Senate in the first place, as it was <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed62.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">created<\/a> in order to create a balance between the will of the people (the House) and the interests of the state, giving less populous states a place on the same scale of power as more populous ones.<\/p>\n<p>Schatz, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JudiciaryDems\/status\/1868736995717218661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> that &ldquo;in an election, the person who gets the most votes should win. It&rsquo;s that simple. No one&rsquo;s vote should count for more based on where they live. The Electoral College is outdated and it&rsquo;s undemocratic. It&rsquo;s time to end it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But it is not &ldquo;that simple.&rdquo; Under Schatz&rsquo;s program, the president would be decided by just a handful of states, rather than the will of the people of all 50 states and the District of Columbia playing a meaningful role.<\/p>\n<p>As England <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trentengland\/status\/1868765582067450327\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, allowing just a few states to decide the presidency could lend itself to an outcome where only one region of the country controls national politics. It would likewise disenfranchise every rural voter in the country, including the ones in populous states, because the political will of big cities in those states would overwhelm the will of rural voters.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome is a tyranny of the majority.<\/p>\n<p>As Alexander Hamilton made clear in <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed68.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federalist No. 68<\/a>, the Electoral College is a necessary component of electing the president specifically because it serves to deter both &ldquo;corruption&rdquo; and &ldquo;tumult and disorder&rdquo; in the process:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States. It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This time around, President-elect Donald Trump would have still won the election under Schatz&rsquo;s plan, as he won the national popular vote. But Republicans have lost it in every recent election except 2004, and yet they still managed to win the Electoral College in 2000 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>That track record is not an indictment of the Electoral College: It is the feature of it.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from disenfranchising the voters of most states in the country, if the Electoral College were abolished, it would allow people like Vice President Kamala Harris to simply campaign to run up the vote margins in places like New York, Illinois, and California, win the election, and completely ignore people anywhere else in the country.<\/p>\n<p>As they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 (when she won the popular vote and subsequently called for the elimination of the Electoral College), Democrats become angry when elections are decided not by their establishment allies, but by people in states they wish they could disregard entirely.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate activists aim to abolish the Electoral College, threatening democracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2381109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2048px-Brian_Schatz_35717591382.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5521,3933,41166,44953,37043],"class_list":["post-2381108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democracy","tag-dems","tag-electoral-college","tag-government-reform","tag-political-debate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2048px-Brian_Schatz_35717591382.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381112,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381108\/revisions\/2381112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}